11 Versions Of WINE Benchmarked

Looking over these results of WINE 0.9.45 through WINE 0.9.55,
there were no major surprises. In some benchmarks all of the versions of WINE
had performed comparably, while the largest and most consistent performance drop had
come with Aquamark 3 between WINE 0.9.48 and WINE 0.9.49. With the dynamic occlusion
culling, high particle count, vertex and pixel lighting, complex multi-material
shader, and massive overdraw in Aquamark 3 all had about a 50% drop in the average
frame-rate. This, however, is not necessarily a performance regression but further
DirectX work going on and more functions being implemented. Aside from these benchmarks,
we are still preparing further WINE benchmarks that will be published in the near
future looking at other areas outside of the emulated DirectX performance.

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